Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Prime Minister of Luxembourg
27 September 2012, Thursday
Official meeting between President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker was held at the Kazan Kremlin within the official visit of the Luxembourg delegation to Russian Federation.
Prime Minister of Luxembourg thanked the Tatarstan President for warm reception in Kazan.
“I have read a lot about your beautiful city, and I wanted to see it with my own eyes. Here the past is consistent with the present making a sound foundation for the future,” Jean-Claude Juncker said.
The Tatarstan President said that Prime Minister of Luxembourg set ambitious tasks for developing cooperation. “We should demonstrate good results. We have held a number of meetings and the visit of a large delegation of Luxembourg businessmen to Tatarstan is being planned,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Head of republic thanked Jean-Claude Juncker for visiting Kazan.
Rustam Minnikhanov believes that the present visit of Prime Minister of Luxembourg to Russia will consolidate relationships between the two countries.
“We should expand our relationships. Tatarstan and Luxembourg have great potential for interaction in various spheres. Our Government and Luxembourg leadership should create all conditions for developing business contacts,” President of Tatarstan said.
Jean-Claude Juncker believes that Luxembourg companies will make a considerable contribution to Tatarstan’s development.
On 5 May, speaking at a regular meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin informed that currently 63 school catering units are under repairs with the amount of work completed reaching 15 per cent.
On May 26, speaking at a briefing in the Cabinet of Ministers of the republic held in a videoconference mode with participation of all municipal regions of Tatarstan and focused on events scheduled for June 1, International Children’s Day, as well as the implementation of the “Summer in Tatarstan” programme, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva appealed that parents should closely supervise their children during recreational activities near water in order to prevent accidents.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.